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Patented Dec. 15, 1885.

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UNirn STATES EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO E. J'. BROOKS 8: CO., OF NEWr YORK, N. Y.

HAIR-CRINIPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,483, dated December 15, 1885.

Application filed October 24, 1884. Serial Xo. 146,404. (No model.)

To all whom it 'may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. Bnoons, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fast Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair- Orimpers, (B,)'of which the following is a specification.

This'invention is in part additional to the improvement in hair-crimpers described and claimed in my specification forming part of application No. 138,438, for Letters Patent of the United States, filed July 22, 1884, (Patent No. 314,100, dated March 17, 1885.)

In common with some of' those described and claimed in said previous specification, the main part or body of each of my improved hair-crimpers, hereinafter described and claimed, is composed, mainly or wholly, of lead, and is normally flat, and it may have distinct leaves united by a fiexible connection or hinge portion, and provided with a iieXible clasp integral therewith, and may have large Ventilating-holes bridged by a covering of textile fabric, and may be re-enf'orced, as described in said previous specification.

The present invention consists, primarily, in normally-flat flexible hair-crimpers, each having a thin leaden body provided with a smooth protective coating of india-rnbber or the like, forming a highly-efficient flexible and self attached envelope, whereby the desirable crimping qualities of. lead are fully utilized, while discoloration thereby of the hair, scalp, fingers, or linen, and chemical injury to the hair or scalp, are most effectively prevented.

This invention consists, further, in a normally-fiatliair-crirnper havingaflexibleleaden body provided with a very thin reenforeing strip of stronger iieXible metal extending continuously from end to end, and so as to reenforce its several bends; also, in normally-flat metallic hair-crimpers, each having two folding-points, between which the hair may be wrapped around a waist portion of the crimper preparatory to clamping `the hair by or between the two leaves or end portions, and pen forated for the ventilation of t-he confined hair, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

A sheet of drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figurel 1 of these drawings is a face view of a hair-criniper as yet unbent, illustrating the several parts of the present invention. Fig. 2 represents the same wrapped with hair, and bent so as to clamp and crimp the hair, the erimper being shown in section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a magnified crosssection on the line 3 3, Fig. 1. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are face views with appended cross-sections of hair-crimpers embodying the saine invention in part, illustrating modifications in shape and proportions. Fig. 7 is a face view of a haircrimper, illustrating the association ci" the several features of the present invention, with additional features of the crimpers described in my previous specification aforesaid.' Fig. 8 is an edge view of the same wrapped with hair and bent and clasped. Fig. 9 represents la magnified longitudinal section on `the line 9 9, Fig. 7, and Fig. 10 represents a magnified cross-section on the line 0 0, Fig. 7.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Each of the improved haincrimpers represented by the-drawings has one or more of thefoll'owing features, viz: first, a thin leiden body, B', Figs. 3, 9, and 10, provided with a smooth protective coating, O, of india-rubber, japanning, or the like; second, a re-enforcing strip, R, Figs. 3, 9, and l0, of very thin sheet metal-such as brass or tin, or it may be of tin-foil-extending continuously from end to end of lthe crimper, so as to strengthen all its several bends; and, third, a waist portion, a, ineach crimper between a pair of bendingpoints, b, (the latter indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7,) whereby the crimper is adapted to have the hair for a curl or ringlet wrapped tightly around said waist portion preparatory to clamping it by or between the perforated leaves or end portions, c c, of the crirnper, as illustrated by Figs. 2 and 8, which show crimpers in use.

The crimper represented by Figs. l, 2, and 3 embodies all said features, as aforesaid, being provided with said envelope or coating O, and having said re-enforcing strip B located within its leaden body B, as shown in Fig. 3, by coating the former with lead, and having circular end portions, c c, Fig. l, adapted to embrace between them the hair wound on said ICO `by Fig. 4,jointly with the manufacture of the form first described, so as to economize stock at the edges of the sheets of metal, and also to make the crimpers in the form of perforated strips having parallel edges and more or less wide, as represented by Figs. 5 and 6; and insome cases said re-enforcing strip R, Fig. 3, may be omitted, as represented by said Figs. 4, 5, and 6, the leaden body B being in this case wholly of lead and formed by stamping or cutting it fromsheet-lead rolled very thin.

The modified crimper represented by Figs. 7 to 10, inclusive, has abody, B, of sheet-lead, provided with large perforations d d in its respective end portions, c c, bridged by an inner covering, I, of textile fabric. Its re-enforcing strip R,extending from end to end, is held between this covering I and the leaden body B, as clearly shown in Figs. 9 and 10, the

whole being inclosed within a self-attached and impermeable envelope formed by a coating, C, of india-rubber, japanning, or the like, as aforesaid, and a clasp, e, integral with one leaf or end portion, provides for fastening the crimper when folded, as shown in Fig. 8.

rlhe sheet-metal portion of the body B of either of the crimpers is stamped with its perforaticns, as aforesaid. If this be of other than lead, as illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, and 8, it is next dipped in molten lead, and thus given a leaden surface, and at the same time thoroughly annealed; or, if it be of lead, it may be provided with a longitudinal re-enforcing strip, B, and with an inner covering, I, of textile fabric, as shownvin Figs. 7 to 10, inclusive, the latter secured by a suitable paste or cement. Finally, in the preferred process of manufacture, the otherwise-nished article isdipped into rubber cement7 or a suitable solution of india-rubber, and this is vulcanized thereon, to give it said impermeable outer envelope or coating, C, whereby the latter isl In use the hair for a curl or ringlet is wrapped tightly around the waist portion a of a crimper, between its two bending-points, b b, and its end portions, c c, are then bent over in one and the same or'in opposite directions, and if it has a fastening-clip, e, the latter is bent around the leafedge, with which it coincides, and the crimper may be readily tightcned (more or less) by compressing the respective bends between the finger and thumb. During these operations, and while the crimper is worn, the impermeable coating G and reenforcing strip R perform their functions, as aforesaid, and with the former of rubber it is so flexible as to be unaffected by repeated bends.

I do not claim herein' uniting a pair of crimping-leaves by a hinge portion integralwith the frame of both leaves, no r providing a hair-crimper mainly of lead with a re-enforcing strip, broadly considered, nor with a covering of textile fabric, nor with a fastening clip integral with the frame of one of the leaves, as these features of some of the haircrilnpers hereinbefore described are set forth in my previous specification aforesaid.

Having thus described my said improvement in hair-crimpers, (13,) I claim as my invention and desire to patent under this speci` ficationl. As a new article of manufacture, a haircri mper having a leaden body provided with an impermeable self-attached envelope or protective coating of rubber or the like, substan-L tially as herein specified, for the purposes set forth. i

2. In a hair-crimpcr, a normally-flat leaden body provided with a very thin re-enforcing strip of stronger metal extending from end to end thereof, so as to strengthen its several bends, as herein set forth.

3. The combination, in a normally-flat haircrimper having a iiexible leaden body, of a waist portion adapted to have the hair for a curl or ringlet wound thereon, and Vhaving a bending-point at each end thereof, and a pair of perforated leaves or end port-ions adapted to be bent toward said waist portion, so as to clamp said hair by or between them, substantially as herein set forth.

ED WARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

NORMAN S. KLINE, 'HENRY L. G. WENK.

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